Languages

VOR is an artist book with its sights set on the future, even if it deals with the past. In Bea Meyer’s engagement calendar, “Diploma” is written in for 1:30 p.m. on 4 February 2000. A succinct entry that marks her official beginning as an artist. Fifteen years on, she takes the calendar and types it out 1:1, without corrections. She transcribes all her calendars up until 2015, condensing them into a tightly woven tapestry of text. Characters and numbers from her private life, from work, and from the world outside are blended together and create a distinct space defined by its own time — an imaginary
realm in which one is continually shifting between fiction and reality. The book juxtaposes and counterpoints text images and visual works from the last fifteen years. As Meyer writes: “The length of a calendar entry doesn’t necessarily say a lot about how much you actually did on that particular day. But it may reveal how much you planned to do.”